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Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by southerntofu »

vmception wrote: post #13

> OFFICIAL ANONYMOUS (not to be confused with 'Anonymous Official' grifters) They should sign an ethereum address to reduce ambiguity (Any crypto asset address is fine, even PGP is good enough for this but PGP had 25 years to make that user friendly and common but failed, and cryptocurrencies made signing software more prevalent and uniform wayyyyy faster)

"PGP" is an algorithm, not an organization or movement, so you can't really say it failed. The algorithm is pretty good, though some implementations are really bad, and most programs who embed it have bad UX.

However, there's still some very good programs with good UX making use of PGP (for example delta.chat), and to this day no cryptomoney scam wallet has ever been as useful as PGP has over the years.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by schleck8 »

petecooper wrote: post #96

The linked .torrent file is ~30MB, and appears to be ~180GB of data with ~190,000 files. It's split into ~689,000 pieces of ~256KB, hence the comparatively large .torrent file overall.

I'm sure this will become a running gag, someone commenting epic/epik after large leaks

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by southerntofu »

tcmart14 wrote: post #114
southerntofu wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Implementing security guidelines is not as easy as paying a security expert. You then have to follow their advice, which means security practice for all employees. It can be costly and cumbersome. Of course, it would have reduced damaged, such as pointing out that unhashed or unsalted MD5 passwords in a database is... what we've stopped doing 20 years ago for good reasons? :) But well, if you're a big hosting provide…

Yup. Security is a lot of time an after-thought and a burden to quiet a few companies since security is something that is not of immediate value. Last spring we had a speaker from northrup-grunman who talked about the need to push for a DevSecOps strategy.

> security is something that is not of immediate value

Yeah exactly. It's a huge cost upfront and zero immediate benefits. The investment is worth it to prevent losing value due to a breach, but unfortunately it seems pretty OK for for-profit companies to "loose" data from millions of their customers without facing any sort of consequences.

I'm not exactly saying it should be entirely okay for non-profits, but these generally don't have the resources/budget to ensure any form of security so i don't have the same standards. In my book, a for-profit business leaking user data due to preventable mistakes should be dissolved instantly by law for endangering uselessly their customers.

> we had a speaker from northrup-grunman

Uh. Sorry for you. These military industrial complex people have the best security advice, but they're the worst kind of humans.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by southerntofu »

throwawepik wrote: post #23

There is a .swp file in the torrent: > strings .whois.sql.swp b0nano 5.4 anonymous datahound whois.sql I tested on my machine and nano swap files contain the nano version (5.4), the username (anonymous), the hostname (datahound) and the filename (whois.sql).

Nice catch! I downvoted though, because helping to deanonymize antifascist hackers is against my ethics.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by cbg0 »

twistslider wrote: post #112
AllegedAlec wrote: post #99

> Time to find out who in your family secretly ran an Ivermectin horse porn fetish site, disinfo publishing outfit, or yet another QAnon hellhole. > Decloak origin IPs of nazi websites for further investigation, poking, prodding! > Map out a decade of online fash with a level of clarity nobody has been able to UNTIL NOW! > Support your starving hacktivists, and they will bless you in turn. > So long, for now! Support…

Anyone can claim to be part of Anonymous, that's kind of the point. It's not an official group with representatives or any kind of official viewpoints. All you need to do is say you're part of Anonymous and that's it, no 'larping' required.

I think the larping is actually mandatory if you want to pose as Anonymous.

Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by [deleted] »

Lammy wrote: post #36

>NOTORIOUS "HACKERS ON ESTRADIOL" PRESENT GRAND REVEAL I love how this is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the "hackers on steroids" piece from 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY

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Re: Anonymous Hacks Epik

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Post by rvz »

iammisc wrote: post #86
heyitsguay wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fortunately, given the purported scope of the hack, it seems we'll be able to actually quantify that. How many of the websites weren't hosting violent or extremist content? If this is real, we should be able to get an exact percentage.

Twitter hosts violent and extremist contents. Now please give me jack Dorseys address, phone number, and social security card so we can exact justice /s That there are people on this forum advocating for vigilantism is frightening. We are quickly approaching the point of lawlessness as a society.

There you go. Vigilantism is OK only if it doesn’t affect them. But when it does, the outrage is everywhere. To them, it seems that unauthorised access and leaking personal information even if innocents are involved is suddenly OK then?

That activity seems very extreme doesn't it over just reporting directly to the authorities.

This is best left to the authorities to deal with such issues rather than resorting to such extreme and illegal activities, no matter the cost or innocents affected.

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